New Bird Flu Case: Call For Control In Vietnam

UN Health Agency Calls For Heightened Control In Vietnam
After New Bird Flu Case

The United Nations health agency
has called for heightened control measures against bird flu
in Vietnam following informal reports of a new human case,
warning that increases in poultry marketing, transportation,
and consumption with the approach of the Lunar New Year in
February create conditions favouring its spread.

The World
Health Organization (WHO) noted that the latest reported
case was the first detected in Viet Nam since early
September and coincided with several fresh poultry outbreaks
reported in southern provinces of the country in
December.

WHO has warned several times over the past year
of the potential evolution of the virus into a human
pandemic which, in the worst scenario, could have a
devastatingly deadly result.

Since January of this year,
28 human cases have been detected in Viet Nam. Of these, 20
were fatal. Thailand has also reported human cases, bringing
the total in Asia for the year to 45 cases, of which 32 have
been fatal. The outbreaks resulted in the deaths or culling
of more than 100 million birds.

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